234 results for tag: Share Your Story
I’ve had a deep desire to do work that has an impact and a wide reach for as long as I can remember. While I had heard people say that “raising children can be your greatest ministry,” I believed I could control my efforts more outside of motherhood. It seemed that those beliefs were validated when my first pregnancy ended in miscarriage. Few people knew I was pregnant, let alone that I had miscarried. Going right back to work and climbing the proverbial ladder, six months later I became pregnant and then delivered a healthy baby girl. I then began to experience the dance between building a career I loved and being an intentional mother to this ...
On August 13, 2018, I nursed my sweet little girl for the last time. I was starting to get sore, so I figured it was time for her to give up nursing; my daughter Adelynn was a year and a half at the time. It was a tough few days for us, but we made it!
One week later, I decided to celebrate with a special dinner, but afterwards I felt off. Little did I know I was carrying Addy’s little brother. The next morning I took a pregnancy test to verify if my suspicions were correct, and in minutes, the strip read two lines. We had decided to let the chips land where they may in regards to trying to have another, so Everett was a surprise but ...
Luke Charles Hawthorne was a miracle. We had been trying, unsuccessfully, for four years to conceive a child. In November 2019, I had an appointment with my doctor to discuss a possible referral to a fertility specialist. As I was praying, I felt God saying, “Trust Me.” In January 2020, we found out we were pregnant. I was ecstatic! I was finally going to be a mama. I started researching all the baby things and was in a state of bliss. My husband and I even began reading a book on God-centered parenting. Then on May 13, 2020, the unthinkable happened. My water broke when I was only 21 weeks pregnant. The prognosis was poor. My doctor prepared me ...
January 23, 2019 started with a mix of pure excitement and a little bit of fear. My husband and I had taken the day off work and he brought me strawberries and cream for breakfast in bed. Afterwards, we got up to go to the anatomy ultrasound for our first baby. We sat together in the exam room, so excited to see our little one moving and to find out if we were having a girl or a boy.
“It’s a girl!” the tech announced, and we knew she was our Adelynn Claire. We moved to the waiting room and studied the scans, imagining the excitement our family would feel when they heard the news, and dreaming, even then, of what life would be like with ...
August 28, 2019.
The day my life changed. Again.
This was the day I was the first to know a new person existed. The day I knew I was a mommy again. It only took a moment for me to register the results on the pregnancy test and have so many thoughts flash through my head. “I’m having a baby! Who will this child be? Boy or girl? Blond hair or brown? Blue eyes or brown eyes? Your sisters will be so excited to know you’re on your way! Your daddy will be so proud!” I was bubbling after telling Peter and blurted out, “Let’s tell the family!” I’d felt very private in announcing our pregnancies before, but it was just the opposite ...
"I remember looking out my hospital window and gazing at all the cars going by and the people walking in the parking lot and thinking that the world should not be moving right now—because my world just came to a screeching halt. How could our happily ever after turn into our worst nightmare in the blink of an eye?
My water broke on Saturday, July 24, 2010. I was shocked and a little overwhelmed because Landry was going to be two weeks early, but I was overly excited about finally seeing that precious face I had been dreaming about. I think the best part was that Landry and our older son, Tyler, would have birthdays only two days apart. I was ...
I've been serving as the Creative Director for Hope Mommies since it was established in 2011. It has been a blessing and honor to me as I have met some of the most amazing women with the most beautiful hearts. I have seen the Lord time and time again using trials, grief, and pain to sharpen and refine souls that radiate Him profoundly.
Over the years I have been asked why I'm involved in serving Hope Mommies; I hadn't had a loss of my own, but that isn't required to love and serve. It was the Holy Spirit prompting my heart to love my friend, Erin, and to use my design skills and talents that He gave me in a way that serves the ...
He flipped the switch and the room darkened. “Maybe now we will get a clearer view,” he said.
I stared at the screen and it was still. Nothing. No movement or fluttering at all. “There is no heartbeat is there?” I said, fighting back tears.
“I am so sorry,” he said as he sighed.
I placed my head in my hands and began sobbing. "Why God?" Those seemed to be the only words I was able to utter. I knew I needed Him now more than ever, but I couldn't think of anything I wanted to say to Him. I just sat there on the exam table, alone, holding my stomach.
After a few minutes I knew I needed to call my husband, but how do you tell ...
“Grief is like the ocean; it comes in waves, ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes the water is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.”- Vickie Harrison.
But how would I learn to swim in the sea of grief? The loss of our sweet Annalee came just two months after our 3-year-old daughter was diagnosed with cancer. I went from fearing the unknown future of our daughter, Lela, to grieving the future memories that we will never have with Annalee.
I will never forget how I felt when I found out I was pregnant again. I’m not proud of my reaction. This was my sixth pregnancy. We already had four blessi...
David and I have been married for almost 18 years, and our story of trying to grow our family began when we realized that infertility would be a road we would walk down in our marriage. I don’t think I ever imagined the difficulty and heartache we would face as we tried to grow our family over the span of more than five years and through multiple fertility treatments.
In 2010, we became pregnant with identical twins. This news brought with it emotions intertwined with excitement, joy, fear, anxiety, and stress, as we began our journey as first time parents. I remember sitting in the doctor’s office hearing their heartbeats for the first ...
